HISTORY OF HUMAN RIGHTS by Sofia Vico https://padlet.com/sofiavico2009/47kb974a8fu9c77c en-us 2023-05-16 11:28:54 UTC 2025-10-23 21:18:10 UTC hello@padlet.com Before 539 BC sofiavico2009 https://padlet.com/sofiavico2009/47kb974a8fu9c77c/wish/2592958262 At first there were no human rights. If you were in with the right crowd you were safe but if not you weren't.]]> 2023-05-16 11:46:20 UTC https://padlet.com/sofiavico2009/47kb974a8fu9c77c/wish/2592958262 Cyrus Cylinder sofiavico2009 https://padlet.com/sofiavico2009/47kb974a8fu9c77c/wish/2592966731 When Cyrus the Great conquered Babylon he announced that all slaves were free to go. He also said that people had the freedom to choose their religion, no matter what crowd they were part of.
He documented his words on a clary table known as the Cyrus Cylinder. ]]> 2023-05-16 11:54:08 UTC https://padlet.com/sofiavico2009/47kb974a8fu9c77c/wish/2592966731 Natural Law sofiavico2009 https://padlet.com/sofiavico2009/47kb974a8fu9c77c/wish/2592976691 The idea of the Cyrus Cylinder spread quickly to India, Greece and Rome. They noticed that people naturally follow certain law even if they were told to. This were called Natural Law. But it kept getting trampled on by those in power.]]> 2023-05-16 12:03:00 UTC https://padlet.com/sofiavico2009/47kb974a8fu9c77c/wish/2592976691 Magna Carta sofiavico2009 https://padlet.com/sofiavico2009/47kb974a8fu9c77c/wish/2596149799 England finally get a king to agree that no one can overrule the rights of the people not even a king. People's rights
were finally recognized and they were now safe from those in power. However, still took a bunch of British rebels declaring their independence to created all men equal. This does not mean that the monarchs liked the idea but they couldn't stop them. So North America become independence and the French immediately followed with their own revolution for their own rights. Their list was even longer and they insisted that these rights weren't just made up they were natural the Roman concept of natural law had become natural rights.
]]> 2023-05-18 11:27:13 UTC https://padlet.com/sofiavico2009/47kb974a8fu9c77c/wish/2596149799 Napoleon 1800 sofiavico2009 https://padlet.com/sofiavico2009/47kb974a8fu9c77c/wish/2596158201 In France a general named
Napoleon decided to overthrow the new
French democracy and crown himself
emperor of the world he almost succeed. But the countries of Europe joined forces and defeated Human Rights. They drew up international agreements broadly granting many rights but only across Europe not the rest of the world. Instead they got invaded conquered and consumed by Europe's massive empires.
]]> 2023-05-18 11:38:20 UTC https://padlet.com/sofiavico2009/47kb974a8fu9c77c/wish/2596158201 Mahatma Gandhi 1951 sofiavico2009 https://padlet.com/sofiavico2009/47kb974a8fu9c77c/wish/2596165034 A young lawyer from India decided to end with the violations of Human Rights. His name was Mahatma Gandhi and in the
face of violence he insisted that all people of earth had rights not just in Europe. Eventually even Europeans started to agreed.
]]> 2023-05-18 11:46:57 UTC https://padlet.com/sofiavico2009/47kb974a8fu9c77c/wish/2596165034 Word War II sofiavico2009 https://padlet.com/sofiavico2009/47kb974a8fu9c77c/wish/2596170758 Hitler exterminated half of the Jewish population of Earth in horrifying Nazi death camps. 90 million people died. Never had Human Rights been so terrifyingly close to extinction and never the world been more desperate for a change.]]> 2023-05-18 11:53:25 UTC https://padlet.com/sofiavico2009/47kb974a8fu9c77c/wish/2596170758 United Nations 1945 sofiavico2009 https://padlet.com/sofiavico2009/47kb974a8fu9c77c/wish/2596172499 The countries of Earth banded together and formed the United Nations. Their basic purpose was to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person. ]]> 2023-05-18 11:55:43 UTC https://padlet.com/sofiavico2009/47kb974a8fu9c77c/wish/2596172499 Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948 sofiavico2009 https://padlet.com/sofiavico2009/47kb974a8fu9c77c/wish/2596803087 With the proclamations of Cyrus, the natural laws of Rome and the declarations of France everyone seem to have a slightly different idea of what human rights should be. 
But under the supervision of Eleanor Roosevelt they finally agreed on a set of Rights that apply to absolutely everyone,  the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (the French concept of natural rights had finally become human rights).]]> 2023-05-18 22:51:13 UTC https://padlet.com/sofiavico2009/47kb974a8fu9c77c/wish/2596803087